Kathryn Mann

Me and my four siblings, one of my Cousins, my Parents and two sets of my Aunties and Uncles, all sat down the steps at our Auntie’s garden in Hollywood, Birmingham. My Mom was one of seven siblings and my Dad was an only child, who had five children together, so all my family memories are noisy, busy and loud, much like the Madness song ‘Our House’. This photo shows us during a gathering, I was only 3/4ish so can’t recall whether it was someone’s birthday, an anniversary or just a Sunday lunch, but we all have many memories like this. A family get together was always loud and fun and we’d end up rolling home long after dark, with a ‘doggy bag’ of leftover food, nodding off as the lights tunnels of Birmingham flew by.

Auntie Dolly and Uncle Stan, Mom and Dad, Auntie Vera and Uncle Bob, my cousin Tracy, my sisters Vanessa, Vivienne and Elizabeth, my brother Michael and me (Kathryn)
1981, The garden of a house on Douglas Road, Hollywood, Birmingham

Jackie Dray

Family trip from Small Heath Birmingham to Trentham Gardens

1952, Trentham Gardens

Maya Rai

Maya was born in the Suva, Fiji Islands and moved to Willenhall in the 1950’s with her Husband and 2 eldest children. Maya had a further 2 children born in Willenhall, one of which was Alfred (pictured third aged 6). Alfred has always lived and worked in the area and married Nicola in 1990. Their eldest of 2 children, Megan, was born in 1993, pictured last here at aged 8 months in the family christening dress at Woodside Way, Short Heath, Willenhall.

Maya Rai's parents: Bodh Mati Rai (Mother) and Kuber Rai (Father), Maya Rai, Alfred Rai and Megan Gosnell
Approx 1952 - 1993, Fiji Islands and Willenhall, UK

Emily Jones

My great grandfather picking up my grandad from his pram when he was a young baby.

Great grandad and grandad
1945, Nottingham

Maya Rai

Maya Rai holding her granddaughter, Megan (left) Alfred Rai playing with his daughter, Megan (middle) Nicola Rai watching her daughter, Megan, play in a pushchair (right)

Maya Rai (now aged 85), Nicola Rai (now aged 52), Alfred Rai (now aged 63) and Megan Gosnell (now aged 28)
1993 - 1996, At home and on holiday

Jean Bates and Family

Jean Bates and Family

Honor Woodhall

An image taken by me at a family celebration, my Uncle's wedding. The picture depicts my young Cousin explaining something to her Mother, (my Auntie) and our Grandad.

My Grandad, Auntie and Cousin.
2021 , Becketts Farm in Wythall, Birmingham

Samantha Simmonds

Celebrating my Daughter's birth in 2004 with four generations in one picture. My late Grandmother to the left is no longer with us.

From left to right; My Grandmother, my Mother, myself and my Daughter Grace (who is due to turn 18 on 20th May 2022!)
2004, My late Grandmothers house

Elizabeth Evans

Me and my Dad with his darts trophies that he won in local leagues around Hockley.

My Dad and I
1979, Our family home, Birmingham

Sayed Mohammed

My Mother with my brothers and sisters

My Mother, young brother and sisters
1983, Sparkbrook, Birmingham

Judith Bach

This photo was taken on my Parent's wedding day at the end of WW2. Dad was 29 my Mum was just 19. According to family lore they only met 6 weeks before their marriage, they remained devoted until Dad's death. My paternal Grandparents and their 3 sons moved from Cornwall to Stirchley in Birmingham during the 1920's. My Mum came from a small village in Northumberland and met my Dad during the 2nd world war. She came to live with my Dad's family when they married in the October following the end of the war. Mum loved Birmingham and always felt proud to be considered a Brummie, she attempted to lose her Geordie accent after being teased about how she pronounced 'eight'. Strangely, as she grew older and just before she passed away her Northern accent became more pronounced again. My Nan had a Cornish accent and a very distinguished way of saying 'eggs', all these years later I can still remember how she sounded. Grandad was gentle and quiet. There house was next to a railway embankment, the train drivers used to wave to me when I was small girl. I wasn't born until nine years after this photos was taken but it has the power to summon up happy childhood memories of the many times I spent in this same garden with those I loved, my family.

Sat in the middle of the front row are my parents Evelyn and Kenneth. My paternal grandparents Reginald and Florence Phillips are on either side of my mum and dad. The boy sat on the grass at the front is my cousin Peter, an artist who now lives in Australia. Directly behind my mum is Peter's mum, Aunt Madge who was married to my dad's eldest brother Jack. Stood beside Madge to the left the tall man is my dad's lifelong and childhood friend Ernie. Dad and Ernie served in the armed forces together during WW2. I'm unsure who the elderly couple are to the right of the frame stood at the back nor who the four people are on the left.
1945, In my Grandparent's back garden in The Worthings, Stirchley, Birmingham

Martyn Phillips

Some of my family members in a pub

Left to right, my cousin Shelley, my Gran, Rose and my Grandad Frank Lee, Val Skinner, best friends with my Auntie Chris and my Uncle Dudley (there's only my uncle left now).
1964-65, The Victoria Pub, Runcorn Rd, Balsall Heath